A bronze statue of the acromegalic giant Rigardus Rijnhout

Bronze life-size statue by the Dutch sculpturer Herman Lamers (1954, https://www.hermanlamers.nl/) of Rigardus Rijnhout (“de Reus van Rotterdam”, “the Rotterdam giant”), flanked by a pair of his replicated bronze shoes and a chair, was erected in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 2011.
The acromegalic giant, Rigardus Rijnhout was born on the 21th of April 1922 in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. His final height was 2.375 m. And the length of his feet was 36.0 cm. He developed normally until the age of 3. At the age of 13, his height was already 1.90 m. At the age of 21, he was treated with external pituitary radiotherapy. He stopped growing at the age of 24. He developed hypopituitarism, for which he received desiccated thyroid extract and testosterone proprionate injections. He died at the age of 36, on the 13th of April 1959, as a result of a (uro-)sepsis after being hospitalized for 141 days under the care of the endocrinologist Andries Querido (1912–2001) in the Leiden University Hospital, Leiden, the Netherlands.
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